Book Meme

The BBC thinks most people will have only read 6 of these 100 books.
Put an X next to the ones you’ve read.
Count them up at the end.



01 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – X
02 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – X
03 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – X
04 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – X
05 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – X
06 The Bible – X
07 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell – X
09 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman – X
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – x
Total: 9
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I’ve read most of his stuff, but not alllll the plays)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
Total: 10
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald – X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens – X
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – X
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame – X
Total: 16
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen – X
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen – X
36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis – X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – X
Total: 20
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell – X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding – X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
Total: 22
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert – X
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 25
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck – X
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas – X
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville – X
Total: 28
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker – X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson – X
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante – X
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
Total: 31
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens – X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Total: 34
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – X
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas – X
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare – X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Total: 38

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